Receiver Quotes - Page 2

• The fastest way to change the feedback culture in an organization is for the leaders to become better receivers.

  Sheila Heen

  Organization, Leader, Culture

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• Grace gives without the receiver realizing how great the gift really is.

  Rebecca Pippert

  Giving, Grace, Realizing

  Rebecca Manley Pippert (1999). “Out of the Saltshaker & into the World: Evangelism as a Way of Life”, IVP Books

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• For the spread and endurance of an idea the originator is dependent on the self-development of the receivers and transmitters.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Self, Ideas, Endurance

  B.H. Liddell Hart (2015). “Why Don't We Learn from History?”, p.87, Lulu Press, Inc

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• It's easy when you have receivers that are open all the time and an offensive line that never lets anyone touch you. It makes it fun to play.

  Tom Brady

  Fun, Play, Lines

  Tom Brady Press Conference at Gillette Stadium, www.patriots.com. January 12, 2008.

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• I can be a receiver, a cornerback, a safety and quarterback-I can play everything.

  Clinton Portis

  Play, Safety, Quarterback

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• I'm a physical receiver, yet I can run and move like someone who is 5-8 or 5-9.

  Chad Ochocinco

  Running, Moving, I Can

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• He is so efficient. He seems to be playing smarter, more confidently. I think they have given him more responsibility. He's very, very accurate and doesn't make many mistakes. The statistics show he has three interceptions, but in reality it's only one. The others were deflected passes by receivers who should have caught balls.

  Pat Haden

  Mistake, Responsibility, Reality

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• I feel like I'm a fan of film who's actually in the business, too. So it'd be like saying like, ‘Yeah, I love the NFL,’ and then, ‘Yeah, I'm also a wide receiver.’

  Luke Wilson

  Nfl, Fans, Film

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• I'm not sure leaders listen enough, especially to their people. And I've always thought in everything I've tried to do in my life, in the jobs I've had, is that if we can turn our transmitters off and our receivers on more often, we're better leaders and we know more of what is going on and therefore we can lead more effectively.

  Chuck Hagel

  Jobs, People, Leader

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• You need a name.” I covered the receiver for a moment. “We need a team name.” “Hunters,” Raphael said. “Valiant Knights of the Fur,” Dali said. “Justice Group,” Jim said. “Since Justice League is taken.” “Fools.” Doolittle shook his head. “Fools,” I said into the receiver.

  Ilona Andrews

  Team, Taken, Knights

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.179, Penguin

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• Dear God, surely you aren't the chef Sam was talking about?" "No," he said with a laugh, and gestured behind him with a thumb. "Cale here is." "Kale?" Alex echoed blankly, her eyes sliding to the still half-closed door. She didn't see any evidence of a second man. Frowning, she set the phone back in its receiver and leaned to the side, trying to see out into the kitchen as she muttered, "Kale is a vegetable.

  Lynsay Sands

  Eye, Men, Talking

  Lynsay Sands (2010). “Hungry For You: An Argeneau Novel”, p.32, Harper Collins

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• My name is indigenous to my country, it is not easy to pronounce, it takes effort to say correctly and I am absolutely in love with the sound of it and its meaning. Also, it's not the kind of name you baby, slip into sweet talk mid sentence, late night phone conversation, whisper into the receiver kind of name, so, of that I am glad.

  Warsan Shire

  Country, Sweet, Baby

  Source: kalamu.com

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• The hitter can never be the judge. Only the receiver of the blow can tell you how hard it was, whether it would kill a man or make a baby just yawn.

  Edward P. Jones

  Baby, Blow, Men

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• Emma, your granddad’s on the line,” says Artemis, putting her hand over the receiver. “Something about the night bus and he’ll never trust you again?

  Sophie Kinsella

  Night, Hands, Lines

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• Every quarterback can throw a ball; every running back can run; every receiver is fast; but that mental toughness that you talk about translates into competitiveness.

  Tom Brady

  Football, Running, Nfl

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet. Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Regret, Fall, Greatness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.37, Xist Publishing

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• Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth to a new sense of belonging.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Kindness, Two

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Way Of The Wizard: 20 Lessons for Living a Magical Life”, p.155, Random House

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• You will be faced, now, with pain of a magnitude that none of us here can comprehend because it is beyond our experience. The Receiver himself was not able to describe it, only to remind us that you would be faced with it, that you would need immense courage.

  Lois Lowry

  Pain, Able, Would Be

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Her wish to die was as pervasive as a dial tone: you lift the receiver, it's always there.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Suicidal, Wish To Die, Tone

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• The receivers are an integral part of the passing game.

  Hank Stram

  Games, Passing, Passings

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• There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.

  Augustus Hare

  Wings, Mind, Atheism

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• Every gift requires two freedoms: the giver's and the receiver's.

  Peter Kreeft

  Two, Giver

  Peter Kreeft (2016). “Back to Virtue: Traditional Moral Wisdom for Modern Moral Confusion”, p.79, Ignatius Press

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• Peace can come to both the giver and the receiver as we follow the promptings of the Spirit to serve one another.

  Barbara W. Winder

  Spirit, Giver

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• We know about the Detroit offense with Calvin Johnson, the best receiver in the game. If this defense continues to play at this pace, they may have something to say about the NFC North.

  Bill Cowher

  Games, Play, May

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• We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organ of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing by ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams. If we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Philosophy, Lying, Justice

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.16, Penguin

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